Lash-loop fastening



(No'ModeL) E. N. PARKER.

LASH LOOP FASTENING. No. 351,522. Patented Oct. 26, 1886.

I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC I ERASTUS N. PARKER, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

LASH-LOOP FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. l,522 ,-dated October 26, 1886.

Application filed August/4, 1886.

engagement therefrom by ordinary use; and

the invention consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and adaptation of the loopattaching devices, as hereinafter fully described, and setforth in the claims.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l is a side ,vieW of the tip end of a whip having my improvements applied thereto, said figure showing the usual plaited covering of the whip opened and turned away from the whip-stock, to better show my improvement. Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse section of the end of the whip (not including the plaited covering) on line a; m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the tip end of a whip having applied thereto my improved loopfastening in a slightly-different form from that shown in Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a detailed perspective view of the fastening devices shown in Fig. 3.

In the drawings, 2 indicates the whip-stock, made in any suitable manner, either from the usualcemented strips of rattan or other material or from a single stick; and 3 indicates the usual plaited outer covering of the whip. The snapper or lash-loop 4is made, preferably, of a strip of soft leather, although any other similar pliable and strong material may be used. Said strip of leather is doubled, as shown, to formsaid loop, and its ends are applied against the opposite sides of the extreme end of the stock 2, and are secured to the latter by a thread, 5,which is wound around them to hold them in place while the essential loop-fastening devices below described are applied thereto, said winding of the ends of the loops serving also to properly compress the same, so that the plaited covering which is applied Serial No. 209,996. (No model.)

thereover (when the said'fastening devices are used on a whip so covered) will not unduly project at that point beyond the surface of the whip below it. The aforesaid essential loopfastening devices consist of a metallic pin, 6,

of said shank 7, said washer on one sideand said head 9 on the opposite side of the whip clamping tightly the said ends of the loop 4 between them and the sides of the whip.

In Fig. 3 is shown the application of the fastening devices illustrated in Fig. 4, consisting of said pin 6 and the metallic straps or oblong washers 12, the latter being, as in Fig. '3, riveted to the ends of said pin, the latter, to-

gether withlsaid washer, being, for the purposes of fastening the loop to the whip, the full equivalent of the said rivet 8 and itswasher 10, and for fine whips with tips of small diameter at the end, the devices shown in Figs. 3 and 4 may be preferable, for the reason that the pieces shown in the latter figures may be provided more conveniently of delicate dimensions than can thesaid rivet and washer.

shown, they are'capable of being formed or bent around the loop ends and those sides of the whip-stock opposite the axis of the said rivet shank or pin, as shown in the drawings. By inclosing the said part of the stock 2 between the curved rivet-head and its washer said stock is so clamped and partially surrounded by the metallic shell-like formation of said rivet-head and washers that the end of the stock or the tip thereof is prevented from splitting, and therefore the loop is secured to the latter in the most permanent manner.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. A lash-loop fastening for whips, consisting of a pin passing transversely through the end of the whip and through the ends of the 100p, said pin having on the ends thereof I the whip and through the ends of the loop,

curved washers, between which the end of the and a curved washer secured on the end of whip and said loop-ends are clamped, substansaid rivet-shank, substantially as set forth. tially as set forth.

ERAST US N. PARKER.

a 2. A lash-loop fastening for whips; consisting of a, rivet having a curved head, and a shank passing transversely through the end of \Vltnesses:

H. A. CHAPIN, G. H. CHAMBERLAIN. 

